Recent content by EVERFABCHAD

I need to find out what Thermal Expansion Coefficient for 316H is at 800 egrees Celsius. Also what other Stainless steels can run at these temps?? No stress environment. Thanks Chad

If you set your manufacturing file up as an assembly and bring the parasolid in as a part file, You can replace the part in the original part file and then in the manufacturing assembly there is a "Replace Component" function that supposedly will do this. I tried a couple times and it did not...

All of a sudden we are getting files that will not open in NX5. The Error is the following: An invalid handle index was found reading an OM file: probable corruption. Has anyone else had this happen? What could be causing this?

Is it a pocket with .004 corner rads? If so how deep is the pocket? We mill things like this all the time. You can buy toole that are .020 DOC that could cut this.

I thought i saw a thread here for this once before, but i can not find it. I am using NX5 and in a lot of the dialog boxes in Drafting, the number pad does not work. Has anyone found a fix for this?

It has been a while, but i think you need to set your load options correctly to get the Linked bodies to update automatically. If I remember correctly it has to do with load interpart data. If this is not checked you need to double click the Linked body to get it to update.

Look at Met-Cut. they are owned by Kennametal now, but the tools are manual. MSC has a similar version that i think is a better tool.

Thread mill them. Emuge has an awsome tool. Lasts forever.

I agree, Go with Allied very free cutting, holds size, cheep inserts, many sizes available etc....etc....

There is a million ways to skin a cat. You can also divide the face of the impellar to only machine the sections you want. This keeps the tool path from wanting to rap over the edges, which is where i seem to have the most trouble holding tolerance. You can also make datum planes that project...

I have the same problem. 64 bit 5.0.4.1. Very pain staking problem. I do not even bother waisting my time with GTAC it is more trouble that it is worth.

They have a GPS in them.

I am 38 and in the same boat, only I am in The 3D Cad\Cam arena. I develope and process very difficult 5-axis Areospace parts with Unigraphics NX5 for a shop with 40 machines. I taught myself and have been able to achieve anything that has been thrown at me, however if for what ever reason this...

Are there any known issues with running NX5 on a 64 bit Windows XP system?

Don't let you highs get too high and don't let your low's get too low